On the job front…
I had an interview this morning. I gave the worst interview of my life. It was with a major video conferencing manufacturer here in town. I walked in to the interview room and there were 10 people there. Ten.
I’ve done a lot of interviews and many have had two or three people in them. It’s not uncommon in this industry. It’s never bothered me and is actually the norm. Ten people is far above the norm in my opinion. I was hooked up with these folks because my wife knows the wife of a guy that works there. If it hadn’t been for that fact I’d have probably turned and walked out upon seeing 10 shiny happy faces staring at me. I seriously just froze. I’m borderline ochlophobic and definitely xenophobic, so this was setting off all the alarms. I can suppress those phobias during interviews as it’s normally only a couple folks and it’s a necessary evil. It didn’t help that they had a demo of their product running so I was treated to my face on a 50″ plasma screen, that’s a real confidence builder. I blew the answers to questions I knew and stuttered through stuff I know inside and out. I’ve heard they’re a great company to work for and all but this was very intimidating. I felt like I was before a grand jury. I’ve never actually sweated in an interview but I did in this one, I was literally sweating. I just wanted out of that room. It seemed like it’d be a decent job and interesting too.
I appreciate any chance to interview and thanked the interviewer for giving me a shot, but I won’t have to take the job if it’s offered to me.
I got a call during the interview and when I checked the message afterwards it was my new pimp telling me that they finally have a start day for me at IBM, three weeks after I signed paperwork. Looks like I’ll be starting there again this Wednesday. I wish that call would have come 30 minutes sooner so I could have just skipped The Interview From Hell.
: Like a river from the album “Wayward Angel” by Kasey Chambers
P.S. While searching for an image to portray ‘sweating bullets’ I came across NWS this NWS. Um, interesting.
